Revising psychoanalytic understandings of perinatal loss

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-176

  Leon, Irving G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AMBIVALENCE; BEREAVEMENT; CONFLICT; GUILT; HUMAN; MOURNING; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 0029952483     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0079646     Document Type: Review

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